Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Exodus 32:13
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The faithfulness of Moses in the office that had been entrusted to him was now to be put to the test. It was to be made manifest whether he loved his own glory better than he loved the brethren who we...
4. ISRAEL ‘S SIN AND REBELLION CHAPTER 32 _ 1. The people in rebellion (Exodus 32:1)_ 2. Jehovah threatens his wrath (Exodus 32:7) 3. Moses beseeches Jehovah (Exodus 32:11) 4. Moses descends and
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ISRAEL. Not Jacob, because this is the language of highest faith. SWAREST. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia_ (App-6). Compare Hebrews 6:13; Hebrews 6:17; Genesis 22:16. AS THE STARS. Figure of speec
_to whom_, &c. See Genesis 22:16 (the only place in Genesis where the covenant is confirmed with an _oath_). _I will multiply_, &c. Genesis 22:17; cf. also Exodus 15:5;...
Jehovah declares that He will exterminate the people: but allows Himself to be diverted from His purpose by Moses" intercession....
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 32 And when the people saw that Mo-ses delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aar-on, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, whi...
_REMEMBER ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND ISRAEL, THY SERVANTS, TO WHOM THOU SWAREST BY THINE OWN SELF, AND SAIDST UNTO THEM, I WILL MULTIPLY YOUR SEED AS THE STARS OF HEAVEN, AND ALL THIS LAND THAT I HAVE SPOKEN...
ISRAEL] This name is employed rather than Jacob because it suggests the 'prince that had power with God and prevailed': see Genesis 32:28. 15-29. The suppression of the idolatry. 15, 16. See intro. t...
THE IDOLATRY OF THE PEOPLE 1-6. The historical narrative is here resumed from Exodus 24:18. Becoming impatient at the prolonged absence of Moses on the mount (forty days, Exodus 24:18), and despairing...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 32 THE YOUNG *BULL THAT THE *ISRAELITES *WORSHIPPED – VERSES 1-35 A...
MOSES’ REPLY, AND GOD’S “REPENTANCE.” (11-13) Moses has three arguments: (1) God has done so much for His people, that surely He will not now make all of none effect (Exodus 32:11); (2) their destruct...
זְכֹ֡ר לְ אַבְרָהָם֩ לְ יִצְחָ֨ק וּ לְ
CHAPTER XXXII. _ THE GOLDEN CALF._ Exodus 32:1 While God was thus providing for Israel, what had Israel done with God? They had grown weary of waiting: had despaired of and slighted their heroic lea...
AARON'S GOLDEN CALF OFFENDS THE LORD Exodus 32:1 The people never thought of taking Aaron as a substitute for Moses, because they instinctively recognized his moral weakness. Though he was dressed i...
Immediately following the account of this period of communion between Moses and God we have the record of the sin of the people. When they said, "Up, make us Gods," they were seeking something to repr...
Remember (g) Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spo...
_Thy servants. Thus God honours his friends, and rewards their merits, which are the effects of his grace. (Worthington)_...
If we lose sight of Moses in this place, in order to behold him whom Moses typified, even the Lord Jesus Christ, in his glorious character of intercessor, this passage is uncommonly beautiful. Isaiah...
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
13._Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants _He does not bring thern forward as patrons, by the assistance of whose voice he might obtain what He seeks; but because the promise was lodged wi...
Whilst God was thus preparing the precious things connected with His relationship with His people [1], the people, only thinking of what they saw in the human instrument of their deliverance, complete...
REMEMBER ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND ISRAEL, THY SERVANTS,.... The covenant he made with them, the promise he had made unto them, with an oath annexed to it: TO WHOM THOU SWAREST BY THINE OWN SELF; which he...
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken...
_Turn from thy fierce wrath_ Not as if he thought God were not justly angry, but he begs that he would not be so greatly angry as to consume them. Let mercy rejoice against judgment; _repent of this e...
1 The people in the absence of Moses, cause Aaron to make a calfe. 7 God is angred thereby. 11 At the intreatie of Moses he is appeased. 15 Moses commeth downe with the Tables. 19 He breaketh them...
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Thy servants, to whom Thou swarest by Thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken...
MOSES INTERCEDES FOR THE PEOPLE...
THIRD DIVISION The legislation as modified by the lapse of the people, and the intensified distinction between Jehovah and Israel as expressed in the more hierarchical constitution of the theocracy...
THE GOLDEN CALF (vs.1-6) Moses forty days in the mount (the number of testing) was too much for the impatient children of Israel. They gathered to Aaron in united determination to have some substitut...
7-14 God says to Moses, that the Israelites had corrupted themselves. Sin is the corruption of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption; every man is tempted when he is drawn aside of his own lust. Th...
We have now to contemplate something very different from that Which has hitherto engaged our attention. " The pattern of things in the heavens," has been before us Christ in His glorious Person, graci...
Exodus 32:13 Remember H2142 (H8798) Abraham H85 Isaac H3327 Israel H3478 servants H5650 swore H7650 (H8738) said...
YAHWEH INFORMS MOSES OF WHAT IS HAPPENING BELOW (EXODUS 32:7). a Yahweh said to Moses, “Go, get yourself down, for your people whom you brought up out of Egypt have corrupted themselves (Exodus 32:7...
Exodus 32:7. _And the LORD said unto Moses, Go get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:_ See how Jehovah will not own these idolaters...
Exodus 32:1. _And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before u...
CONTENTS: The broken law; Israel worships a golden calf. Intercession of Moses. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Joshua. CONCLUSION: It is a great sin to make gold, or anything else, a god, as those d...
Exodus 32:1. _Unto Aaron._ Some copies read, the people gathered themselves together _against_ Aaron. He sinned through fear of man; but as the Lord did not punish him with the revolters, the latter w...
_Moses besought the Lord._ THE INTERCESSION We find him in succession-- 1. Highly privileged. 2. Deeply grieved. 3. Raised to a holy frame of mind. 4. Visibly answered. 5. Abundantly strengthen...
EXODUS 32:1 Covenant Breach, Intercession, and Renewal. This section illustrates Israel’s need for sanctification from the Lord. ⇐ ⇔
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 32:7_ INTERCESSION Consider— I. THE SIN AND PERIL OF ISRAEL. Their sin was the more grievous because it came after such wonderful manifestations of God’s p...
EXPOSITION THE INTERCESSION OF MOSES. Moses, in Sinai, was so far removed from the camp, and the cloud so shut out his vision of it, that he had neither seen nor heard anything unusual, and was wholly...
Now when the people saw that Moses had delayed coming down from the mountain, they gathered to Aaron, and they said unto him, Get up, and make us gods, that shall go before us; for as for Moses, we do...
remember Leviticus 26:42 Deuteronomy 7:8 Deuteronomy 9:27 Luke 1:54 Luk
Remember Abraham — Lord, if Israel be cut off, what will become of the promise?...